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Call of Duty: Warzone Makes It Too Easy to Cheat, and That’s a Problem – GameRant

The Call of Duty: Warzone community has been dealing with hackers since the game's launch with modern matches flooded with hacking players.

Hacking has been a long-recurring problem for the Call of Duty: Warzone community. Since the original launch of the title, Activision and its developer studios have been in a losing battle against cheaters and hack developers. While Call of Duty: Warzone has been through ban waves and anti-cheat updates, the title still remains heavily populated by hackers.

Activision has recently banned 60,000 player accounts with 30,000 permanent bans mixed in. While this does aid in Call of Duty: Warzone's effort to remove the hacking problem,they are still appearing. Fans are quickly growing tired of the continuous hacker epidemic, and as such, many are considering leaving Call of Duty: Warzone until the problem is fixed.

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The prevalence of the hacking community makes many Call of Duty: Warzonefans wonder as to how the game got into its current situation. Although Activision has been implementing anti-cheat updates, most of their work feels unimpactful in the game environment as hackers continue to appear. While many look towards Activision for answers, it is also important to look towards the hackers to understand what is happening in this battle royale experience.

Since the launch of Call of Duty: Warzone, the game's community has been dealing with hackers and cheaters. While some problems could be easily written off as developer errors, blatant hacks quickly gained an appearance within the title. Aimbots, wallhacks, map cheats, and many other disruptive programs were detected by the community early on and promptly reported to Activision. While the Call of Duty: Warzone community waited for answers, the developer rolled out new content without fixing many of the current issues prevalent in the game.

Several months later, fans are seeing an increase in hackers, and the problem begins to gain media attention. Content creators, streamers, and fans all brought the Call of Duty: Warzone hacking issue to the attention of Activision. This triggered the first ban wave, and later a second wave, which caught innocent player accounts in its net accidentally. Despite this, Call of Duty: Warzone's hacker problem continued togrow for several days until finally Vikkstar and several other content creators pulled out of the popular battle royale.

While it is easy to point fingers at Activision and Raven Software, many fans do not realize how easy it is to cheat at Call of Duty: Warzone. Many videos across the web have highlighted the issue, and while community members accuse them of being part of the problem, they are highlighting an important fact. Call of Duty: Warzone hackers gather in online communities like any other group, and this means that they can easily trade, train, and sell cheating software for popular titles.

Activision has confronted several cheat development companies, including EngineOwning, but many of the companies refuse to cease production. This opens the door for players to have a large selection of cheating software to choose from, and very little can deter them from hacking in Call of Duty: Warzone. From multiple software options to players having several accounts, Activision is in an uphill battle when it comes to enforcing its anti-cheat policies.

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This leaves the community in a strange sense of limbo. While Call of Duty: Warzone hackers are growing more confident, Activision seems to be bolstering itsdefenses and reinstating more strict anti-cheat measures. Many fans are concerned that Activision will not do enough to stem the rise of hackers, but others are simply grateful that something is changing.

It is a difficult situation for the Call of Duty: Warzone community to be in as a player can do very little against an aimbot. From frustrated content creators to defeated streamers, the community is tired of constantly battling in unfair competition. Activision has a chance to make things right with the game's community, but it is still too early to know if it is too late to earn back the community's support.

Call of Duty: Warzone is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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Pamela Anderson quits social media, says companies want control’ – New York Daily News

  1. Pamela Anderson quits social media, says companies want control'  New York Daily News
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Pamela Anderson Announces That She Is Quitting Social Media: This Will Be My Last Post – Us Weekly

Thank you, next. Pamela Anderson is saying farewell to social media for good.

This will be my last post on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, the Baywatch alum, 53, wrote on her respective accounts on Tuesday, January 26. Ive never been interested in social media and now that Im settled into the life, Im genuinely inspired by reading and being in nature. I am free.

Anderson continued, Thanks for the love. Blessings to you all. Lets hope you find the strength and inspiration to follow your purpose and try not to be seduced by wasted time .

The Canadian star suggested that Big Tech companies want the masses to be distracted by their services so that they make money and have control over your brain. She concluded her posts with various hashtags, including freedom, intimacy and human connection.

Andersons absence from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook comes months after she became the creative director of a new social platform called Jasmin. The webcamming site aims to connect users with influencers and experts who they can speak with across various topics ranging from fitness to relationships.

I love the concept, I love the idea of trying to connect people, she told Good Morning America in May 2020. I feel like its one of those things where users and influencers can talk about anything and its direct communication looking into somebodys eyes I kind of take social media to another level.

The V.I.P. alum explained how shes been able to use Jasmin to speak about the things that she cares about, such as romance. Im always in love and brokenhearted at the same time. My mother tells me so much its never going to change, she added.

Later that month, Anderson admitted that she previously misunderstood and was a little bit concerned about what webcamming was before joining Jasmin. However, she has since come to understand the benefits of that form of communication.

Once I got involved with Jasmin, I realized how great it is and how it helps people, she told Fox News at the time. With this, Ive thought maybe its time to embrace technology and have it be a part of our relationships, a part of our friendships. It can complement relationships instead of being this kind of secret world that a lot of people have on social media.

The former Playboy model, who shares sons Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee with ex-husband Tommy Lee, quietly wed producer Jon Peters in January 2020. She announced their separation less than two weeks later.

Us Weekly confirmed that February that Anderson and Peters, 75, were never legally married a fact that she later elaborated on in a New York Times profile.

I wasnt married, she told the publication last May. No. Im a romantic. I think Im an easy target. And I think people just live in fear. I dont know what all that was about, but I think fear really played a lot into it.

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VERIFY: No, this company didn’t say getting COVID-19 is safer than getting the vaccine – WUSA9.com

A popular anti-vaccination Instagram account took a press release out of context. The company, Merck, told us the viral post is false.

WASHINGTON As of January 26, 23.5 million Americans have received at least one dose of the COVID-91 vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Almost 3.5 million have received a second dose. But with more widespread vaccinations come more misinformation.

Two anti-vaccination Instagram accounts with almost 100 thousand followers combined, and a tendency to spread misinformation about COVID-19, posted this week that "Vaccine manufacturer Merck scraps covid vaccine, saying studies show it's more effective to get the virus and recover than get the vaccine."

The posts each have thousands of likes, so the Verify team talked to experts about why this is untrue and misleading.

Is natural COVID-19 infection and recovery more effective than getting the COVID-19 vaccine?

No. Pharmaceutical company Merck scrapped their vaccine in early trials because it was not as effective as other vaccines. Some Instagram post takes their information out of context.

As of January 27th, the only COVID-19 vaccines approved for administration in the U.S. are Pfizer and Moderna.

Meanwhile, several other pharmaceutical companies are in the midst of clinical studies for their own vaccines. Until January 25th, Merck was one of those companies.

That's when they released a press release announcing they were ending the development of their two SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccine candidates. The release says "This decision follows Mercks review of findings from Phase 1 clinical studies for the vaccines...the immune responses were inferior to those seen following natural infection and those reported for other SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccines."

A popular Instagram account took this out of context and appears to convey that this press release shows that natural infection and recovery is more effective than a vaccine. A spokesperson for Merck told us this is outright false.

Merck's early vaccine trials showed low effectiveness compared to natural infection and other vaccines. They never said that it is better to get COVID-19 and recover than get any vaccine.

In a statement to Verify, Merck praises the other vaccines on the market, saying "We are encouraged by the recent progress of other authorized and late-stage COVID-19 vaccine candidates that have set a high bar for efficacy and safety. This is good news for our industry and for society."

According to the CDC, scientists are still studying whether a COVID-19 infection provides any future immunity.

So far, a few people have been re-infected, but they say it is rare. They say in their vaccine FAQ, "Experts do not yet know how long someone is protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. The immunity someone gains from having an infection, called natural immunity, varies from person to person."

We can Verify that Merck did end their vaccine trials, but they say the claim that "it's more effective to get the virus and recover than get the vaccine" is outright false.

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Telekom Serbia and Telenor to join forces to control the media? – Serbina Monitor in English

The Serbian authorities have come up with a plan to destroy the free media with the help of Telekom Serbia mobile phone services provider.

N1 has had access to a plan under which the government-controlled Telekom Serbia will join forces with Czech tycoon Petr Kellners Telenor to reduce the SBB cable services providers market share to less than 30 percent. The Telekom believes that this would prevent the financing of media outlets such as N1 TV, Nova S and Sport Klub. The authorities are swearing by European values but are trying everything to prevent the existence of free media by destroying a private company this time.

The plan to destroy the free media in Serbia was presented to the Telekom management after months of work to draft it, N1 has learned. The state-owned telecommunications company is planning to give Telenor the complete infrastructure of its cable network and the complete content of its cable TV.

They are making no secret of the fact that the state-owned company is planning to increase its income, increase its client numbers with the goal of finally destroying SBB which is the main reason for the contract with Telekom, N1 learned.

That practically means that, based on European norms, Telekom Serbia is illegally associating with a private company to destroy another private company. Telekom is not hiding the fact that it wants to destroy SBB and reduce its market share to less than 30 percent and prevent it from investing in program content.

The destruction of SBB would allow Telekom to become the only provider capable of setting up new channels and earning income from both Telenor and its clients and plan to hae complete control over Telenor clients.

Telekom keeps saying that SBB has already filed a complaint with the European Commission saying that the government is pushing its company forward by creating a telecommunications and media monopoly.

The agreement between Telekom and Telenor has to be approved by the Commission to protect competition. According to what N1 has learned, the documents have been handed to the Commission but have not been published on its web site as per the procedure. If the Commission just declares itself not competent to rule on the case, the cooperation between Petr Kellners private company and the state-owned Telekom could go ahead unobstructed.

(N1, 25.01.2021)

Pakleni plan: Telekom i Telenor se udružuju da bi uništili slobodne medije

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